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Primary Cueing Tremor: A Task-Specific Tremor of Billiard Players

Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements
Volume 15 (2025): Issue 1
By: Thananan ThammongkolchaiORCID,  Lee E. NeilsonORCID and  Pichet TermsarasabORCID  
Open Access
|Aug 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.1072 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 8, 2025
Accepted on: Aug 9, 2025
Published on: Aug 25, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Tremor,
task-specific tremor,
Task-specificity,
sports

© 2025 Thananan Thammongkolchai, Lee E. Neilson, Pichet Termsarasab, published by Ubiquity Press
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